cap-and-trade
adjective
: relating to or being a system that caps the amount of carbon emissions a given company may produce but allows it to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance
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During the Obama presidency, Walz backed the president on the big votes that mattered, such as the Affordable Care Act and the cap-and-trade bill.
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Andrew Prokop, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
That’s a problem for California’s cap-and-trade initiative, which depends in part on corporate polluters paying to protect forests and thus keep planet-warming carbon emissions out of the atmosphere, instead of reducing their own emissions.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
This November, voters in Washington state will have the final say on Initiative 2117, which would repeal the Climate Commitment Act and prohibit state agencies from implementing a cap-and-trade program.
—Brett Davis | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
In some cases, such as the United States’ trading mechanism for sulfur dioxide emissions (the world’s first large-scale pollutant cap-and-trade system, often thought to represent the success of market mechanisms), pricing followed rather than led successful administrative interventions.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
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Andrew Prokop, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
That’s a problem for California’s cap-and-trade initiative, which depends in part on corporate polluters paying to protect forests and thus keep planet-warming carbon emissions out of the atmosphere, instead of reducing their own emissions.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
This November, voters in Washington state will have the final say on Initiative 2117, which would repeal the Climate Commitment Act and prohibit state agencies from implementing a cap-and-trade program.
—Brett Davis | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
In some cases, such as the United States’ trading mechanism for sulfur dioxide emissions (the world’s first large-scale pollutant cap-and-trade system, often thought to represent the success of market mechanisms), pricing followed rather than led successful administrative interventions.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
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